Review 5: Bureaucracy and Public Economics, by William A. Niskanen (1994)
Reviewed by:
Steve Molloy,
Reviewing Sociology

"This particular book offers a very useful collation of Niskanen's leading contribution over more than two decades to the development of a formal economic theory of how and why the rational self interest of bureaucrats, often grounded in the interests of the bureau itself, subvert their masters' intentions and the process of representative government more generally. "

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